CAREY, Peter - My Life as a Fake - (Excellent Paperback)

 (No more than 4 books per order/ parcel allowed) - Book looks brand new and unread to me.  >>>  "Who cares about poetry?  Fifty people in Australia?  Ten with minds you might respect"  (Peter Carey, My Life as a Fake)   -   I love Peter Carey.  If every artist is indeed a thief, Carey is a literary larcenist.  I've read three of his novels this year and all were fantastic and all seemed to be written by an inspired ventriloquist who juggles voice to voice, scene to scene, on a tightrope of his own fancy.  He steals stories from the headlines, from history, and bends them and reshapes them to explore themes of art, identity, ideas and ideals.  It is messy metafiction.  It isn't absolutely fiction.  It isn't absolutely original, but it is strange and magical.